Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.

Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.

1. Lesson #1-3- Aboriginal people of Canada-Pre Contact

   • Students will be summarizing information about Aboriginal people of Canada and putting this on a poster.
     • B6 select and use various strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including summarizing and synthesizing
       • Assessment- Class generated criteria-students will be marked.

2. Lesson #4 & #5 The Importance of the Potlatch

   • Reading secret of the dance- discussion-video of elder talking about Potlatch-Watch video of Alert Bay-Cause and Consequnce-Add ot back of poster
     • B6 select and use various strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including summarizing and synthesizing. Differentiate between short-and long term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, and developments (cause and consequence)
       • Will use class generated criteria to mark poster

3. Lesson #6- People of the Cedar

   • Talk about ties to the land- Read People of the Cedar- Talk about importance of Cedar-everything it supplies- Students will write short reflection
     • Students will be able to assess the relationship between cultures and their environments. E1
       • Formative assessment- I will collect the reflections and provide written feedback

4. Lesson #7- Living in balance with the Sea

   • Students will be reading the chapter about gathering, preserving and collecting- Student will provide a chapter summary about what they have read. We will also read the article-Salmon Ceremony and have a discussion about this.
     • Students will be able to assess the relationship between cultures and their environments. E1
       • Assessment- I will be collecting and providing formative assessment on the students chapter summary.

5. Lesson #8 The Indian Act, Royal Proclamation, Duncan Campbell Scott

   • Students will be doing a guided web search- I will provide students with 6 different approved websites and students needs to answer a set of questions using the provided websites.-Afterwards we will have a discussion about what we found.
     • Students will be able to- Differentiate between short-and long term causes, and intended and unintended consequences, of events, decisions, and developments ( cause and consequence)
       • Assessment- I will be collecting and marking students web search.

6. Lesson #9- Residential School

   • Together we will be looking at a day in the life of a residential school student, talking about conditions, life, discipline. We will also be watching Shi shi etko video- 6 minutes- We will be reading Not my Girl and having a class discussion. We will be in groups making tableux's to represent parts of the book. We will be talking about cause and consequence.
     • B6 select and use various strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning,
       • Assessment -I will be conducting formative assessment and recording notes on students participation

7. Lesson #10 - Diseases and Trading

   • Together we will be reading text about diseases and trading and adding notes to the back of our poster. We will be talking about Making Ethical Judgement too.
     • Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, and actions that considers the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond ( ethical judgment)
       • I will be using the class generated criteria to mark poster.

8. Celebration of Learning: Blanket Exercise

   • Culminating Task: Students will write a final writing response that talks about the consequence of contact that lead to trade and settlement.
     • I will be providing a rubric before they start this assignment, I will be marking their response based on the rubric.